THE NEW YORKER THE. CUR.R.E.NT CINE.MA Stars from Sumatra-Miss Harding Bursts into Tears-A German War T HIS résumé of recent events in picture is about the pleasure-loving, the movies may be read as a trlb- lovely bride, very Early Victorian, and ute to monkeys and apes; even voluminously crinolined, who marries when, in the due course of time, it wan- a stern puritan. He shuts her up in ders on and mentions a few humans, his great big castle and rebukes her even even then, indirectly anyhow, it may for romping with the baby. She stands be interpreted as a tribute to these little it as long as she can, but when an old animals. The actual monkeys them- beau turns up after three years of rustic, selves are those who compose the cast though castellated, dreariness, there is of "Rango," at the Rivoli; they offer a crash and out she is thrown-with- the one pleasant contribution r . _ out the baby. Her beau takes of the cinema world at the . her to Vienna, while her moment. . \.}. husband sues for divorce. "Rango," a short pet name ....., / And divorce in the Early derived affectionately from ta- t Victorian period, as historians "orang-utan," is Ernest B. will tell you, was no joke. Schoedsack's latest film, and Ernest The beau turns out to be a bit of a bum B. Schoedsack, as you may know, is and then the Franco-Prussian War one of the men who contrived "Chang" comes on-they have got to Paris by d " G " " R " 0 0 h o 0 d h ' d an rass. ango IS not qUIte as t IS tIme-an t ey aren t spare any- ambitious or strenuous as either of thing. Money gives out and he scolds those films; it is more limited in its her for buying champagne all the time concerns and in its zoölogy, but it is and she cries "Oh, please, let's not get a decidedly entertaining affair. The common" and "I want to see my baby" scene is the jungle of Sumatra, an until he is at his wit's end. Well, fi- island in the Malay Archipelago, and nally she sneaks back to her old home two natives are the only bipeds to be and does see her .baby and then goes bothered with. Monkeys, I presume, blind and walks right over a cliff in are not considered officially bipeds. the grounds and dies. That ought There is a tiger who causes something to give you some idea of the plot. of a rumpus, and then we have a large animal with long horns (a sort of tame moose perhaps), a mother-and-son act eloquently interpreted by two orang- utans, and a vast live I V chorus, ballet, and mob scene of monkeys. The close views of these various perform- ers and entertainers are astonishingly adept, and highly refreshing. If you have any children I should think that this picture would be a good sensible thing to let them look at. N ow to wander on, as I indicated I should: "East Lynne" has been raked up from the trunk of some- body's old nurse, and through miles and miles of film poor Miss Ann Hard- ing trudges and groans and sighs and sobs. I had a certain curiosity about this picture. I have always felt that my culture lacked some final lustre since I did not know the plot of this great classic of the bygone day. Now that I do know it, I confess at once that I am no happier-only a little more tired. I imagine that the plot of the picture follows the book, though I cannot speak with authority. It must follow something and that vol- ume may well be it. Anyhow, the " C OMRADES OF 1 918," all in Ger- man, at the Cameo, is no pic- ture to bring us after "All Quiet" and ('Journey's End." It's the horrors of war again, and there are some bits as truly agonizing as anything we have seen of the sort. If you don't know German, however, you are going to be floored by the story. 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